Each home a storehouse for a lifetime of memories.

Mr Fluffy house owners still raw, frustrated and bewildered by the loss of their homes have come together to tell their stories in a short film being made through a collaboration of PhotoAccess, Gen S Stories and Woden Community Service.

They are mainly elderly, mostly from the Woden area, all left gutted by the loss of a home they never expected to leave, forced out by the discovery of Mr Fluffy loose fill asbestos insulation.

Writing the script for the film – their stories – has been cathartic and wrenching. Some people are taking photographs to help document the details of their home, each one working with a practising artist to produce their own digital story.

Maire Cook, 83, and her husband Jack, 89, have very sadly left a house in Chifley that was their home for nearly 50 years. Mrs Cook is close to tears as she explains the benefit of the filmmaking project.

"Time's passed for us to take photos because we've moved now. But in writing this story, it's been a reminder to us what's really important in life. Things all come to an end, but no one can take our memories away," she said.

Tania Evans is working on the project with her mother Diana Evans, 72, mourning the loss of their home in Torrens, which was also her childhood home. They have been photographing the garden, which her mother and late father worked hard on.

"It helps to preserve some memory, because that's all we'll have left to reflect on," Ms Evans said. "I think writing our story I know for me, and for mum, has been quite healing."

Jenni Savigny from Gen S Stories said the online film would be launched in September, giving the wider community a sense of what Mr Fluffy owners have endured.

Woden Community Service director Beth Wurcker said there was still a lot of frustration and anger, especially around the lack of flexibility within the ACT government's $1 billion buyback and demolition scheme to help older people, to stay on their block, in their communities.

"I think a lot of the emphasis has been on the younger families and for them certainly the majority have been given monies to go and buy other places but for this group, it's an entirely different angle," she said.

"I think they feel pretty much abandoned and as if they're probably just a nuisance now and there's been no real thought as to what the future holds."

Betty Pearson, 85, of Mawson has yet to leave her home of 37 years as she is finding if difficult to find anything suitable.

"Smaller places than mine cost more," she said. "Everything I've looked at is nowhere as good as mine and it costs more. So I'm between a rock and a hard place."

David Chalker, 65, of Cook, said his abandoned home of 21 years was just "a mess, a shell".

"People have been moving in, taking things from the garden," he said. "It hasn't been well looked after and it should have been looked after. We've all got quite different stories but the common story is that nobody ever wanted to leave their home."

Rita Gocentas, 68, said the insulation had been only in one corner of her house and she thought once it was removed "that would be it".

"We've had three assessments done and there's no fibres in the house, it's a solid-brick house," she said.

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